Presents examples of Mad Studies in action; initiatives that have been taken, what they have achieved and what can be learned from them Offers examples and insights from the perspectives of those who have (had) those experiences, and will also explore ways of supporting people oppressed by conventional understandings and systems. Comprised of 31 chapters written by leading experts, activists and academics

Searching for a Rose Garden is an incisive critique of all that is unhelpful about sanestream understandings of and responses to mental distress. Drawing on world-wide survivor activism and scholarship, it explores the toxicity of psychiatry and the co-option and corruption of survivor knowledge and practice by the mainstream. Chapters on survivor research and theory reveal the constant battle to establish and maintain a safe space for experiential knowledge within academia and beyond. Other chapters explore how survivor-developed projects and practices are cultivating a wealth of bright blooms in the most hostile of environments, providing an important vision for the future.